Improvement in medicine-spoon and bottle-stopper combined



Cdiluted tatca SUSAN connais, or New vonk', N. Y.A

Letters Patent No. 92,2

7S, dated July 6, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICINE-SPOON AND BOTTLE-STOPPER commun.

'.l'he Schedule refenled to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe lame.

To all whom it may concer-a: l

Be it known that I, SUSAN C. CURRIE, of the city of New York, in thecounty and State of New York,

have invented a new and improved Medicine-Spoon;

and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full,v

clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, forming p'art of this specification This inventionrelates to new and useful improvements in spoons, 'whereby it isdesigned to provide a spoon suitably adaptedfor administering,rmedicine,

having an attachment' for connection tothe cork of the medicine-bottle,serving both as a cork-screw or drawer, and for supporting the spoon ina conspicuous position, where it will he readily noticed when wanted,and be prevented from being misplaced, all as hereinafter more fullyspecified. y

The drawing represents a perspective view of my improved spoon, attachedto the cork of a bottle.

The bowl A, which is similar in shape and construction to ordinaryspoons, is provided with. a pointed and screwed projection, B, extendingfrom the bottom. To this is appliedv a screw-nut, C.

This projection may be screwed through the cork of the ,niedicine-botilefor drawing it, after which the nut O- may be screwed on, to permanentlyhold the l cork for drawing it out, asis frequently required, whilf' themedicine is administered..

This cork also serves as a handle for the spoon. Tile said extensionmay, if preferred, be bent into the spiral form of a common cork-screw,so as to draw the cork without the use' of the nut. r

' W'hilc 1 prefer to connect the said extension to the bottom, it may,if desired, be connectedy to the part where the handles are ordinarilyconnected. Y I propose, in some cases,'to enlarge these projectionssutliciently to form the corks'ot' the hottlesand to make the spoons andprojections of India rubber, hard vulcanized, or of glass; but they mayalso be made 'of metal, or other suitable substance; Having` thusdescribcdxny invention, y. ,I What I claim as new, and desire toAsecure/by 'Let'- ters Patent, is f A medicine-spoon, provided with aprojection ,upon

its under side, by which it is adapted to be applied to the cork of amedicine-bottle,'substantially as specitied.

' The above specilicati'on'signed .by me, this 25th day l of May, 1869.

, SUSAN C. (3U-BRIE. vllVitnesses: Y

O. D. MUNN, S. H. WALES.

